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Lexicon :: Strong's H784 - 'ēš

Aa
אֵשׁ
Transliteration
'ēš
Pronunciation
aysh
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive word
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 172

Strong’s Definitions

אֵשׁ ʼêsh, aysh; a primitive word; fire (literally or figuratively):—burning, fiery, fire, flaming, hot.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 379x

The KJV translates Strong's H784 in the following manner: fire (373x), burning (1x), fiery (1x), untranslated variant (1x), fire (with H800) (1x), flaming (1x), hot (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 379x
The KJV translates Strong's H784 in the following manner: fire (373x), burning (1x), fiery (1x), untranslated variant (1x), fire (with H800) (1x), flaming (1x), hot (1x).
  1. fire

    1. fire, flames

    2. supernatural fire (accompanying theophany)

    3. fire (for cooking, roasting, parching)

    4. altar-fire

    5. God's anger (fig.)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אֵשׁ ʼêsh, aysh; a primitive word; fire (literally or figuratively):—burning, fiery, fire, flaming, hot.
STRONGS H784: Abbreviations
אֵשׁ 377 noun feminineExodus 9:23 (masculineJeremiah 48:45; Psalm 104:4; **masculine is dubious: Numbers 16:18 read עָלֶיהָ for 2nd עֲלֵיהֶם (Greek Version of the LXX B); Jeremiah 20:9 see Ges§ 132 d; Jeremiah 48:45 read (many MSS., Numbers 21:23) יצאה; Psalm 104:4 read perhaps (Ol Du): לֵֹֽֽֽהטָה, or וָלָֽחַט; Job 20:26 see Ges§ 145 u (or 121 b): compare AlbrZAW xvi {1896}. 63; Feminine & masculineJeremiah 20:9; Job 20:26) fire (Assyrian išatu COTGloss, Syriac aXtxwAe  , Ethiopic አላት፡ derivatives from II. אנשׁ, أَنَسَ, sociable, friendly element (MV Wetzst in DePsalmen, ed. 4, p. 888 LagBN 68 compare انيسة, مانوسة), improbable especially in view of Assyrian; daghesh probably secondary; compare also Sta§ 189 b) — א׳ absolute Exodus 9:24 +; construct Leviticus 6:2 + (seldom); suffix אִשּׁוֺ Deuteronomy 4:36; Job 18:5; אֶשְׁכֶם Isaiah 50:11; אִשָּׁם Isaiah 66:24; —
1. fire, of conflagration, e.g. in briers, endangering or destroying crops תֵּצֵא אֵשׁ וּמָֽצְאָה קֹצִים Exodus 22:5; compare Exodus 3:2 הַסְּנֶה בֹּעֵר בָּאֵשׁ (both E); more often of deliberate destruction by fire, especially שָׂרַף בָּאֵשׁ (בָּ with qam. preton.) object golden calf Exodus 32:20 (J), other idols Deuteronomy 7:5, 25, Asherim Deuteronomy 12:3, chariots Joshua 11:6, 9; 2 Kings 23:1, house Judges 12:1; Judges 14:15, tower Judges 9:52, city-gates Nehemiah 1:3; Nehemiah 2:3, 13, 17, city Joshua 6:24; Judges 18:27 compare Isaiah 1:7 +; also שִׁלַּח אֵשׁ בְּ Amos 1:4, 7, 10 +; שִׁלַּח אֶת־הָעִיר בָּאֵשׁJudges 1:8; Judges 20:48 compare 2 Kings 8:12; הִצִּית אֶת־הָעִיר בָּאֵשׁ Joshua 8:8, 19; Jeremiah 17:27 +, compare Judges 9:49; 2 Samuel 14:30, 31 (of field, compare Exodus 22:5 above)
2. of supernatural fire, attending theophany Exodus 3:2; Exodus 19:18 (both J E) Deuteronomy 4:11, 12, 15, 33, 36 +; specifically עַמּוּד (הָ)אֵשׁ Exodus 13:21, 22; Exodus 14:24 (all J E) Nehemiah 9:12, 19 compare Deuteronomy 1:33 (see מַרְאֵה־אֵשׁ Numbers 9:15, 16 P); of destructive fire from י׳ Numbers 11:1, 2, 3 (J) Numbers 26:10 (P) Leviticus 10:2 (P); compare אֹכֶלָת א׳ in simile of Yahweh's glory Exodus 24:17 (E) Deuteronomy 4:24; Deuteronomy 9:3; see also 1 Kings 18:24, 38; 2 Kings 1:10 (twice in verse); 2 Kings 1:12 (twice in verse); 2 Kings 1:14; Job 1:16 (perhaps lightning intended), compare further of lightning Exodus 9:23, 24 (JE) Psalm 18:13; Psalm 18:14; Psalm 148:8 etc.
3. fire for cooking, roasting, parching, etc. צְלִי אֵשׁ roasted at a fire Exodus 12:8, 9 (P) compare Leviticus 2:14; 2 Chronicles 35:13; Isaiah 44:16, 19; of tinder for lighting fire Genesis 22:6, 7 (E); of fire for melting (gold for the idolatrous calf) Exodus 32:24; for refining Jeremiah 6:29, where read with Qr מֵאֵשׁ תַּם עֹפֶרֶת; compare Malachi 3:2 (simile of purifying work of messenger of cov't).
4. especially of altar-fire Leviticus 1:7 (twice in verse); Leviticus 6:2; Leviticus 6:3; Leviticus 6:5; Leviticus 6:6 +; in offering incense Leviticus 10:1, also אֵשׁ זָרָה strange fire, i.e. an incense not commanded, offered presumptuously Leviticus 10:1; Numbers 3:4; Numbers 26:61; fire from י׳ consuming sacrifice (compare 2) Leviticus 9:24; 2 Chronicles 7:1, 3; of fire in child-sacrifice (usually הֶעֱבִיר בֵּן בָּאֵשׁ (לְׅ)) 2 Kings 16:3; 2 Kings 21:6; compare 2 Kings 17:17; 2 Kings 23:10; 2 Chronicles 33:6; also שׂרף בָּא׳ 2 Kings 17:31, בער בָּא׳ 2 Chronicles 28:3.
5. figurative of Yahweh's anger Psalm 89:47 (simile) compare Nahum 1:6; Lamentations 2:4 אֵשׁ־עֶבְרָתִי Ezekiel 21:36; Ezekiel 22:31; Ezekiel 38:19, אֵשׁ־קִנְאָתִי Ezekiel 36:5; see also Isaiah 66:15; Psalm 79:5; Psalm 89:47 etc.; of word of י׳ Jeremiah 23:29; figurative of outbursting emotion Psalm 39:4; of flagrant wickedness Isaiah 9:17, etc:
6. in various combinations, אֵש לַפִּיד Genesis 15:17 (J) a torch of fire (compare Di); לַבַּת־אֵשׁ Exodus 3:2 flame of fire, לַהַב אֵשׁ Joel 2:5, אֵשׁ לַפִּידֵי (in simile) Daniel 10:6 compare Zechariah 12:6, לַהֲבוֺת אֵשׁ Psalm 29:7 לַהֲבֵי אֵשׁ Isaiah 66:15 compare לְהָבוֺת א׳ Psalm 105:32, לָהָבָה נֹגַהּ א׳ Isaiah 4:5 compare Hosea 7:6; שְׁבִיב אִשּׁוֺ spark of his fire Job 18:5 compare כִּידוֺדֵי אֵשׁ Job 41:11; תַּנּוּר אֵשׁ Psalm 21:10 oven of fire, כִּיּוֺר אֵשׁ Zechariah 12:6; אוֺר אֵשׁ light of fire Psalm 78:14; אֵשׁ לֹהֵט flaming fire Psalm 104:4; לְשׁוֺן אֵשׁ Isaiah 5:24 tongue of fire, גַּחֲלֵי אֵשׁ Ezekiel 1:13 coals of fire, so Ezekiel 10:2, compare רִשְׁמֵּי אֵשׁ Songs 8:6; on אַבְנֵי אֵשׁ Ezekiel 28:14, 16 see אֶבֶן; אֵשׁ דַּת [H799 Deuteronomy 33:2], literally fire of a law, or fire was a law, but דָּת law is Persian & late; read perhaps דֹת [לַפִּ] אֵשׁ compare Exodus 20:18 or דֶת [יֹקֶ] אֵשׁ compare Isaiah 65:5.

See related Aramaic BDB entry H785.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

15:17; 22:6; 22:7

Exodus

3:2; 3:2; 3:2; 9:23; 9:23; 9:24; 9:24; 12:8; 12:9; 13:21; 13:22; 14:24; 19:18; 20:18; 22:5; 22:5; 24:17; 32:20; 32:24

Leviticus

1:7; 2:14; 6:2; 6:2; 6:3; 6:5; 6:6; 9:24; 10:1; 10:1; 10:2

Numbers

3:4; 9:15; 9:16; 11:1; 11:2; 11:3; 16:18; 21:23; 26:10; 26:61

Deuteronomy

1:33; 4:11; 4:12; 4:15; 4:24; 4:33; 4:36; 4:36; 7:5; 7:25; 9:3; 12:3

Joshua

6:24; 8:8; 8:19; 11:6; 11:9

Judges

1:8; 9:49; 9:52; 12:1; 14:15; 18:27; 20:48

2 Samuel

14:30; 14:31

1 Kings

18:24; 18:38

2 Kings

1:10; 1:12; 1:14; 8:12; 16:3; 17:17; 17:31; 21:6; 23:1; 23:10

2 Chronicles

7:1; 7:3; 28:3; 33:6; 35:13

Nehemiah

1:3; 2:3; 2:13; 2:17; 9:12; 9:19

Job

1:16; 18:5; 18:5; 20:26; 20:26; 41:11

Psalms

18:13; 18:14; 21:10; 29:7; 39:4; 78:14; 79:5; 89:47; 89:47; 104:4; 104:4; 104:4; 105:32; 148:8

Song of Songs

8:6

Isaiah

1:7; 4:5; 5:24; 9:17; 44:16; 44:19; 50:11; 65:5; 66:15; 66:15; 66:24

Jeremiah

6:29; 17:27; 20:9; 20:9; 23:29; 48:45; 48:45

Lamentations

2:4

Ezekiel

1:13; 10:2; 22:31; 28:14; 28:16; 36:5; 38:19

Daniel

10:6

Hosea

7:6

Joel

2:5

Amos

1:4; 1:7; 1:10

Nahum

1:6

Zechariah

12:6; 12:6

Malachi

3:2

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H784 matches the Hebrew אֵשׁ ('ēš),
which occurs 378 times in 348 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 6 / 7 (Jer 23:29–Eze 23:47)

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:29 - “Is not My word like fire?” H784 declares the LORD, “and like a hammer which shatters a rock?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:22 - ‘Because of them a curse will be [fn]used by all the exiles from Judah who are in Babylon, saying, “May the LORD make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire, H784
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:29 - “The Chaldeans who are fighting against this city will enter and set this city on fire H784 and burn it, with the houses where people have offered incense to Baal on their roofs and poured out drink offerings to other gods to provoke Me to anger.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:2 - “Thus says the LORD God of Israel, ‘Go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah and say to him: “Thus says the LORD, ‘Behold, I am giving this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will burn it with fire. H784
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:22 - ‘Behold, I am going to command,’ declares the LORD, ‘and I will bring them back to this city; and they will fight against it and take it and burn it with fire; H784 and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without inhabitant.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:23 - When Jehudi had read three or four columns, the king cut it with a scribe’s knife and threw it into the fire H784 that was in the brazier, until all the scroll was consumed in the fire H784 that was in the brazier.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:32 - Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to Baruch the son of Neriah, the scribe, and he wrote on it at the dictation of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire; H784 and many [fn]similar words were added to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:8 - “The Chaldeans will also return and fight against this city, and they will capture it and burn it with fire.”’ H784
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:10 - ‘For even if you had defeated the entire army of Chaldeans who were fighting against you, and there were only wounded men left among them, each man in his tent, they would rise up and burn this city with fire.’” H784
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:17 - Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “Thus says the LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, ‘If you will indeed go out to the officers of the king of Babylon, then [fn]you will live, this city will not be burned with fire, H784 and you and your household will [fn]survive.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:18 - ‘But if you will not go out to the officers of the king of Babylon, then this city will be given over to the hand of the Chaldeans; and they will burn it with fire, H784 and you yourself will not escape from their hand.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:23 - ‘They will also bring out all your wives and your sons to the Chaldeans, and you yourself will not escape from their hand, but will be seized by the hand of the king of Babylon, and this city will be burned with fire.’” H784
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 39:8 - The Chaldeans also burned with fire H784 the king’s palace and the houses of the people, and they broke down the walls of Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:12 - “And [fn]I shall set fire H784 to the temples of the gods of Egypt, and he will burn them and take them captive. So he will wrap himself with the land of Egypt as a shepherd wraps himself with his garment, and he will depart from there safely.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:13 - “He will also shatter the [fn]obelisks of [fn]Heliopolis, which is in the land of Egypt; and the temples of the gods of Egypt he will burn with fire.”’” H784
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:45 - “In the shadow of Heshbon
The fugitives stand without strength;
For a fire H784 has gone forth from Heshbon
And a flame from the midst of Sihon,
And it has devoured the forehead of Moab
And the scalps of the [fn]riotous revelers.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:2 - “Therefore behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD,
“That I will cause a [fn]trumpet blast of war to be heard
Against Rabbah of the sons of Ammon;
And it will become a desolate heap,
And her towns will be set on fire. H784
Then Israel will take possession of his possessors,”
Says the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:27 - “I will set fire H784 to the wall of Damascus,
And it will devour the [fn]fortified towers of Ben-hadad.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:32 - “The [fn]arrogant one will stumble and fall
With no one to raise him up;
And I will set fire H784 to his cities
And it will devour all his environs.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:32 - The fords also have been seized,
And they have burned the marshes with fire, H784
And the men of war are terrified.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:58 - Thus says the LORD of hosts,
“The broad wall of Babylon will be completely razed
And her high gates will be set on fire; H784
So the peoples will toil for nothing,
And the nations become exhausted only for fire.” H784
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:13 - He burned the house of the LORD, the king’s house and all the houses of Jerusalem; even every large house he burned with fire. H784
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:13 - “From on high He sent fire H784 into my bones,
And it [fn]prevailed over them.
He has spread a net for my feet;
He has turned me back;
He has made me desolate,
[fn]Faint all day long.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:3 - In fierce anger He has cut off
[fn]All the strength of Israel;
He has drawn back His right hand
From before the enemy.
And He has burned in Jacob like a flaming fire H784
Consuming round about.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:4 - He has bent His bow like an enemy;
He has set His right hand like an adversary
And slain all that were pleasant to the eye;
In the tent of the daughter of Zion
He has poured out His wrath like fire. H784
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:11 - The LORD has accomplished His wrath,
He has poured out His fierce anger;
And He has kindled a fire H784 in Zion
Which has consumed its foundations.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:4 - As I looked, behold, a storm wind was coming from the north, a great cloud with fire H784 flashing forth continually and a bright light around it, and in its midst something like glowing metal in the midst of the fire. H784
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:13 - [fn]In the midst of the living beings there was something that looked like burning coals of fire, H784 [fn]like torches darting back and forth among the living beings. The fire H784 was bright, and lightning was [fn]flashing from the fire. H784
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:27 - Then I [fn]noticed from the appearance of His loins and upward something like [fn]glowing metal that looked like fire H784 all around within it, and from the appearance of His loins and downward I saw something like fire; H784 and there was a radiance around Him.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:4 - “Take again some of them and throw them into the fire H784 and burn them in the fire; H784 from it a fire H784 will [fn]spread to all the house of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:2 - Then I looked, and behold, a likeness as the appearance of [fn]a man; H784 from His loins and downward there was the appearance of fire, H784 and from His loins and upward the appearance of brightness, like the appearance of [fn]glowing metal.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:2 - And He spoke to the man clothed in linen and said, “Enter between the whirling wheels under the [fn]cherubim and fill your hands with coals of fire H784 from between the cherubim and scatter them over the city.” And he entered in my sight.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:6 - It came about when He commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, “Take fire H784 from between the whirling wheels, from between the cherubim,” he entered and stood beside a wheel.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:7 - Then the cherub stretched out his hand from between the cherubim to the fire H784 which was between the cherubim, took some and put it into the hands of the one clothed in linen, who took it and went out.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 15:4 - [fn]If it has been put into the fire H784 for fuel, and the fire H784 has consumed both of its ends and its middle part has been charred, is it then useful for [fn]anything?
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 15:5 - “Behold, while it is intact, it is not made into [fn]anything. How much less, when the fire H784 has consumed it and it is charred, can it still be made into [fn]anything!
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 15:6 - “Therefore, thus says the Lord [fn]GOD, ‘As the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire H784 for fuel, so have I given up the inhabitants of Jerusalem;
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 15:7 - and I set My face against them. Though they have come out of the fire, H784 yet the fire H784 will consume them. Then you will know that I am the LORD, when I set My face against them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:41 - “They will burn your houses with fire H784 and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women. Then I will stop you from playing the harlot, and you will also no longer pay [fn]your lovers.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:12 - ‘But it was plucked up in fury;
It was cast down to the ground;
And the east wind dried up its fruit.
Its [fn]strong branch [fn]was torn off
So that [fn]it withered;
The fire H784 consumed it.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:14 - ‘And fire H784 has gone out from its branch;
It has consumed its shoots and fruit,
So that there is not in it a [fn]strong branch,
A scepter to rule.’”
This is a lamentation, and has become a lamentation.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:31 - [fn]When you offer your gifts, when you cause your sons to pass through the fire, H784 you are defiling yourselves with all your idols to this day. And shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live,” declares the Lord GOD, “I will not be inquired of by you.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:47 - and say to the forest of the Negev, ‘Hear the word of the LORD: thus says the Lord GOD, “Behold, I am about to kindle a fire H784 in you, and it will consume every [fn]green tree in you, as well as every dry tree; the blazing flame will not be quenched and [fn]the whole surface from south to north will be burned by it.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:31 - ‘I will pour out My indignation on you; I will blow on you with the fire H784 of My wrath, and I will give you into the hand of brutal men, [fn]skilled in destruction.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:32 - ‘You will be [fn]fuel for the fire; H784 your blood will be in the midst of the land. You will not be remembered, for I, the LORD, have spoken.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:20 - ‘As they gather silver and bronze and iron and lead and tin into the furnace to blow fire H784 on it in order to melt it, so I will gather you in My anger and in My wrath and I will lay you there and melt you.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:21 - ‘I will gather you and blow on you with the fire H784 of My wrath, and you will be melted in the midst of it.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:31 - “Thus I have poured out My indignation on them; I have consumed them with the fire H784 of My wrath; their way I have brought upon their heads,” declares the Lord GOD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:25 - ‘I will set My jealousy against you, that they may deal with you in wrath. They will remove your nose and your ears; and your [fn]survivors will fall by the sword. They will take your sons and your daughters; and your [fn]survivors will be consumed by the fire. H784
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:47 - ‘The company will stone them with stones and cut them down with their swords; they will slay their sons and their daughters and burn their houses with fire. H784

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